Once Upon a Time

Ex-library, Riwaka Library (a small 19th century provincial New Zealand library, Riwaka is situated 5km from Motueka, in the upper part of New Zealand's South Island.) Rebound in late 19th Century half-calf library binding. Binding loose. Hinges broken. Chipped paper library label on spine. ; "New and Enlarged Edition". x, 562 pages. Lacking the half-title page. Half-leather binding. Page dimensions: 165 x 108mm. Literary essays. Also includes a three page poem "The Slave Ship" on pages 495-7. Selected contents: The Youthful Days of William Caxton; Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville; Evil-May Day; Ben Jonson, the Londoner; John Aubrey, and his Eminent Men; Beginnings of Popular Literature; Walpole's World of Fashion; An Old Watering Place; Items of the Obsolete. ; Ex-Library; 8vo